Tag: How-to
SAP Work Center Formulas: Parameters, OP54 and the Standard Value Key
Your routing times are accurate, validated by the methods team. Yet costing produces wrong costs, and capacity planning shows fantasy loads. Between the two hides a link almost nobody checks:...
Pierre B.
SAP LTMOM migration object modeler
LTMOM is still the reference transaction for modeling migration objects on S/4HANA on-premise, but ever since the shift from LTMC to the Fiori app "Migrate Your Data" starting with S/4HANA...
Pierre B.
SAP MRP Area: OM01 config, Plant vs Storage Location
Many PP teams activate an MRP area as soon as they see a need for fine-grained planning, when what they usually lack is a good strategy setup at plant level....
Michael A.
SAP Material Staging for Maintenance Orders: PM-WM Setup Guide
Reserving a spare part and staging it for a maintenance order are not the same thing. In the first case, the part disappears from the system at goods issue. In...
Pierre B.
SAP PM Permits: Work Permit Approval in Maintenance Orders
The hot work permit is signed, in duplicate, sitting in a binder in the maintenance office. Meanwhile, out in the workshop, the grinder is already running. Every industrial site knows...
Pierre B.
SAP WM Warehouse Structure: The 4 Levels Explained
When you first discover SAP WM, one question keeps coming back: "why learn the structure of a module everyone says will disappear with S/4HANA?" It is a fair question, and...
Michael A.
SAP LTMC in 2026: Deprecated, Use Migrate Your Data Instead
You just typed LTMC in a recent S/4HANA system and the cockpit refuses to create a single project? That is expected. The SAP LTMC transaction has been deprecated since S/4HANA...
Michael A.
SAP Background Jobs: SM36, SM37 and the Job Lifecycle Explained
The sales report has to be ready every morning before the teams arrive. Transfer orders need to be processed every five minutes, weekends included. Nobody runs these programs by hand:...
Michael A.
ABAP Debugger Tutorial: Debug an SAP Transaction with /h, Breakpoints and Watchpoints
A dump just landed on your transaction, or a field shows an amount nobody can explain. How do you see what the program is actually doing, without being a developer?...
Michael A.
SAP Batch Input: SM35 guide and 7 production pitfalls
On recent S/4HANA projects, you still regularly hear that batch input "is a thing of the past, we only use LTMC now". The claim is convenient, it makes life easier...
Michael A.